Programs — NCC Community Service 
A substantial portion of the students' work is with community members and organizations
that have limited resources to get on the Internet. As a result, the girls frequently
act as teachers and technology evangelists for other community members. They also
participate in community service throughout the year.
United Way MLK Day of Service
January 2006 NC Connected students volunteered at the Triangle United Way
to help refurbish computers and clean keyboards.
Meals on Wheels
Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
In September 2005, the girls from NC Connected offered their services to the hurricane
evacuees from New Orleans. Students worked at the Hurricane Relief Shelter on Corporate
Center Drive in Raleigh, NC helping evacuees locate family members on the internet and
registering evacuees in the Red Cross database.
NC Connected staffers went to the shelter to offer our services in any way we could.
As we spoke to the residents, we found that though many of them were missing relatives, they had
little computer experience and felt too intimidated to use the computers themselves.
We called girls in our programs and three of them were able to assist in this effort. For
two weeks after school, these girls visited the shelter, performed searches, and placed
phone calls to help evacuees find missing family members, some of them children.
Residents were delighted to have the help and the NC Connected girls learned up close and
personally that they could indeed make a difference in the world just by being willing
to help.
Special thanks to the girls who volunteered at the shelter and to the Wake County Human
Services Department for allowing us to be of service.
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